President Joe Biden says he has no intention of breaking his promise to deliver $1,400 relief payments to millions of Americans suffering amid the coronavirus pandemic, but he has indicated that he is willing to send the aid to a smaller group of people than he originally indicated in his $1.9 trillion Covid relief package.

Responding to concerns from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Democratic policymakers are now discussing narrowing the income groups that would receive the relief payments, The Washington Post’s Heather Long and Jeff Stein reported Thursday.

Under the new plan, which Long and Stein note is tentative and subject to change, individuals earning up to $50,000 and heads of household earning up to $100,000 per year would receive the full $1,400 payment. In Biden’s original formulation, the limits were set at $75,000 and $150,000, respectively. Under both proposals, payments would drop off above those levels.

The new plan would result in 71% of Americans receiving the full payment, according to Kyle Pomerleau of the American Enterprise Institute, with another 17% receiving a partial payment. Under Biden’s original proposal, 85% of Americans would receive the full payment.

Children would receive $1,400 under the new proposal, so a family of four that meets the income requirement would receive $5,600.

In terms of federal spending, the new plan would cost about $420 billion, according to calculations by Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Biden’s plan by comparison would cost about $465 billion.

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